[OSM-talk] near longitude 180

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg
> http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654
> 
> I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd flood the  
> world otherwise.
> 
> I haven't found an editor that works well in this area -- they all  
> seem to think the world ends at ±180 degrees. Here's a challenge:  
> Which editor will be first to support seamless editing all around the  
> world? (Let's leave the poles out for now.)

The right solution here is to map 0-360 degrees to the unsigned integers
0-2^32. When you get an overflow, the right thing happens. It also makes
the most efficient use of the resolution available.

Jamie
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